Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
LORD BYRONWhy I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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